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Friday, January 13, 2012

How we spent our first $25

We got a lot more than I figured we would be able to.

Almonds:  4.95 (on sale, after rebate - for snacking and making granola)
Cheddar cheese: 3.98 (we use a lot)
Heavy cream:  3.67 (for making ice cream and whole wheat ricotta triple berry scones)
Vanilla extract: 1.99 (just because we go through a lot, even though I didn't realize we had 2 already)
Milk: 4.58 (2 gallons, with coupon, for making cheese, baked goods & for drinking)
sugar:  2.98
neufchatel: 2.38 (for cream cheese wontons)

That brings our total to $24.53.  Pretty good!  I don't think we'll need so much dairy every week, but I do like making ice cream.  Notice how we learned pretty quickly that we won't be able to spend as we planned when we plan on buying non-essentials, like the Sprecher root beer that I wanted.

3 comments:

  1. Hey Jaimie and Shelly - how do you make cheese?
    BTW - this is Robin :-)

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  2. I would also love to learn how to make cheese, I remember a pal in Chicago really enjoyed it! I am excited to read about your homesteading adventures. When we need to make do with what we have on hand in our kitchen/celler, we call it the pantry challenge. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but as long as we are honest, we learn and don't make it again.

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  3. We'll get to making cheese this week and blog about it so you can see. I love the idea of a pantry challenge. It does make you become more creative. It also makes you use more discretion in spending - note that I didn't get what I'd originally planned because what I ended up getting was more useful.

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